I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

My best girl is dead.